The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-18

applause. accompanied by waving of hats and
handkerchefs. This lasted several minutes.
1t was his first public speech since his illness
Fathe: McGlynn looked we'll, except for slight
palen ,ss. When he could make himself heard.
he said that it was a holy and wholesome
thought to venerate, long after their departure.
the memory of the sainted dead. 1t impeled
them to pause amid the humdrum of their work
a-day life to contemplate their best ideals. They
were most of them, the children in direct
descent of those TO whom St Patrick went with
the message of blessing and who gathered
around him to drink in eagerly the holy med
icine that he was sent to give. After review OF
the work of the apostle in Ireland he told the
story of Ireland's sufferings. of her children
driven from home, sacrificing everything
for liberty He said that st. Patrick had indoc-
trinated his people Win the necessity OF holl-
ness ofife. and that it had been given to the peo-
pie Of Ireland to choose between that and all
that is held dear by the people of the world
language, liberty and life itself Upon hun
dred battle-felds in thousands of wretched
families. in the holds of emigrant ships upon
trackless prairies. they had chosen to die,
rather than sacrfce the one thing needful. 1t
was given to the present generation to behold
the glimmerings of the dawn of that day when
all the nations OF the earth should rise up and
call her blessed. The precious doctrine that
God had given the fair earth to all the sons of
men, and that he had made of one breath all
mankind to stand equal in the presence OF their
Maker, was the possession of the people OF
ireland. and they would place dependence upon
no man set of men that should endeavor to
interpose between them and the blessings that
God had given equally to all His children. 1t
might seem. at first, little out of place, per-
haps, for himself. priest of the Catholic
Church. upon that platform, which was
not so much religious as political,
and upon which stood patriotic men
who were not of that fold, to content
himself with merely preaching TO them a St
Patricks day sermon. But he was priest and
ho hoa !, ole hat Ttra.
mendous applause] and therefore they must
pardon him. Wherever he Stood upon whatever
PLATFORM whether he called upon patriotism or
political economy he should inject into his re-
MARKS something of the nature of sermon.
All great human causes were necessarily re-
ligious. and If religion would not go with any
cause, then the fight was not worth fighting. Ii
that were not so. then life was built upon the
evil basis of those who said. Let US eat and
drink for tomorrow we die" 1t was but a
vulgar scramble for those good things of this
world of which there was not enough to go
around. The religion that they believed to be
best, and certain patriotic and economic truths.
namely that God gave to no nation the right to
enslave another, and the right to no man to en-
slave his brother, were proofs of their fidelity
to honest truth. All who had Irish
blood in their veins felt it course
more rapidly through their bodies to-day as they
perceived the approach of Ireland's liberty.
Their hearts were with those who strug
Cling in the councils of the British Parliament
for iustice to Ireland, and with those who were
trying to solve that economical problem. without
the settlement of which the achievement of irish
national independence would be but half the bat
tie. The great question for the Irish people to-
day was not so much should they be free from
foreign dictation, as, should they be enslaved-
the great masses of the people-by privileged
few, it mattered not whether native or British.
The great bane Of Ireland was not so much for
eign rule as landlordism, and it mattered not q
jot whether they were English or Irish. whether
they spoke the Celtic the Saxon tongue
Cheers, confusion and three groans for the En-
glish government So. while they should say
home rule for ireland" let them not forget, al
the same time, to say 1.-The land for the Irish
people" In conclusion, the speaker said that the
people in Ireland, in ST. Patricks day. held the
land in common Davitt received the traditions
from his forefathers.